With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
This is who I am. I’m not perfect. I don’t want to try to be perfect.
People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
God helps those who help themselves.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
He has the most who is most content with the least.
My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way – life throws up all sorts – but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch?’
Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
