It matters not how long you live, but how well.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
I do a lot of improvising on movies, actually.
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.