Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one. "
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
Ancient simplicity is gone. . . the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed. " That kid's an artist now.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. . . The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.