Meister Eckhart

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.