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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Many are called but few get up.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.