If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
