John Templeton

Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .