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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. 
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. 
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least. 
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one 
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. 
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. 
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders 
Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul. 
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. 
Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul. 
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. 
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you 
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. 
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. 
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. 
Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. 
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. 
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. 
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love 
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there 
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends 
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. 
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. 
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. 
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. 
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. 
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. 
The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines 
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. 
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. 
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. 
Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who reason with the head. 
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. 
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. 
