Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name. . . . . DJ Abraham Lincoln
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
If you cannot read all your books. . . fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative. " Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.