W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.