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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me.
We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.
In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .
Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.