Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detecte….

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doe….

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith..….

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I wa….

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in th….

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed..

Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simp….

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecti….

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance a….

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into inst….

Strength is for service, not status.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name..

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken..

By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat ache on a m….

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing..

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttere….

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, ….