Occupation: Author Birth: December 12, 1923 Death: September 3, 1996
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without..
Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed..
Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me ….
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!.
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously..
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste..
Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected ….
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live..
Cultivate the habit of laughter..
Always let your reach exceed your grasp..
Never settle for the crumbs of life..
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home..
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to beco….
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again..
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp..
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eterni….
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any….
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse..
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effor….
True happiness lies within you..
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools..