I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we. . . yes, I assure you. . . we should be begging to be under control again at once.
"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very. " There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . . ] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.