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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree o...

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words - 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is a...

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have creat...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, directions, missions, and callings - ...

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth - teaching other...

Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were little, happy, high notes? W...

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks (c. 1907) Committee - A group of men...

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, n...

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in...

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out...

De-program yourself. The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is deliberately shocking. The more you accept it as the news, the more...

This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more...

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always...

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This ...

No lions are ever caught in mousetraps. To catch lions you must think in terms of lions, not in terms of mice. Your mind is always creating ...

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a...

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, the thing t...

Imagination lit every lamp in this country, built every church, performed every act of kindness and progress, created more and better things...

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare ...

By the very nature of the business, L.A. County traffic cops receive plenty of complaints about their work. After all, most motorists don...