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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques rather than from our own inner core , others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

Law, without force, is impotent.

It's not easy being green.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

He that gives should not remember, he that receives should never forget.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.