The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.

God's first creature, which was light.

Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits.

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause — you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

A giving church is a living church.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

so let it be written; so let it be done.

The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.