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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
The best way out is always through.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.