Blame is safer than praise.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Self-command is the main discipline.
Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.
PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
