Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate. . . . It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
A true leader doesn't just bring troubles; but bring solutions.
If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.