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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.

If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.