Jeff Marder

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.