Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Education is the best provision for old age.

A friend is a second self.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

You can do anything, but not everything.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.