Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America. . . War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.
Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful. " It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing. "