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Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.
You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom -- the law within your body.
Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.
I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.
To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.