When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Start small and dream big.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
God never sends us more than we can handle.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. . . . Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
All the world's a stage.
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.