Choose people who lift you up.
I was the most productive when I was in a flex situation. Do not check for me for needless meetings.
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
My habit is at the beginning of the year, I look at a blank calendar and then we put everything for the kids first like potlucks, sporting events, parent-teacher conferences, doctor’s appointments, and vacations. Second is me. When do I want to work out? When do I want to hang out with my girlfriends? What trips do I want to take? When can I take a long weekend? Put that on there. And then once all that’s done, everything else can come around that. It’s amazing because it forces you to say no because you’ve already blocked out the time.
When they go low, we go high.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
