William Penn

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.