Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.