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Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.
Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.
Death is the return to the beginning of the same life with the possibility of repeating it again.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.
A show is like it's own thing... it's a creation from so many people's talent and so much energy.
The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.
If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.
Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.
Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.
Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.
The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that... young people don't have hope.