Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.
I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.
I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.
There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.
On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.
I set out to work hard, not to get rich.
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.