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No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
May your eyes be always open May your hearts overflow That which enchants will also protect --- May this you always know.
We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.
You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.
A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.
Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.
The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.