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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. 
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. 
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? 
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. 
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them 
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, 'It is talking to me, and about me'. 
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history 
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. 
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. 
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. 
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. 
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't 
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius 
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. 
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. 
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. 
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. 
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools 
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. 
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea 
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. 
Marriagei s the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity 
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. 
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. 
It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. 
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. 
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. 
Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it 
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners 
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. 
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. 
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. 
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. 
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. 
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes 
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. 
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. 
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. 
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. 
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 
Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer. 
