Those unproductive hands may consume so great a share that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate this violent and forced encroachment.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.
We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.
I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.
