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I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it.
no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good.
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.
All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.
Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.
Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.
The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages.
We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!