Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ]
When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
A man who treats his women like a princess is proof that he was raised by a queen.
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.