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In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffin lid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. Imagine His surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? She was dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe." The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song. "Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb, "I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sister Would. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, with some shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others, we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold have no dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.

Money is the seed of money.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is as one who plows but does not sow.

The past should be a springboard not a hammock.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.