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Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.
Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.
Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.
It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.
I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.