History is more or less bunk.
The basis of peace should be a world federation.
We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.
The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.
If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?
Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.
If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve always got.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.
All systems either of preference or of restraint completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.
A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.
All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right peoplethe good and authentic peopleand unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.
[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.
