Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.Collection: Old Buildings
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.Collection: Integrity
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.Collection: Writing
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.Collection: Positive
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.Collection: Travel
What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?Collection: Struggle
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.Collection: Patience
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.Collection: Scare
Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.Collection: Life
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.Collection: Simple
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.Collection: Documentation
Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.Collection: Strong
No one ever lost his job by listening too much.Collection: Jobs
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.Collection: Life Is
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?Collection: Insane
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.Collection: Laughing
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.Collection: Happiness
Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.Collection: Dream
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.Collection: Past
For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.Collection: Past
Knowledge is only potential power.Collection: Knowledge
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.Collection: Reality
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.Collection: Balance
I like my life alone.
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.Collection: Heart
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.Collection: Wise
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.Collection: Believe
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.Collection: Inspirational
For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.Collection: People
The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.Collection: Eye
The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.Collection: Keys
Health has its science, as well as disease.Collection: Health
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.Collection: Ignorance
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.Collection: Batteries
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.Collection: Order
Natural selection is anything but random.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.Collection: Forgiving
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.Collection: Dream
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.Collection: Lying
For the robust, an error is information.Collection: Errors
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.Collection: Graduation
As thou thinkest, so art thou.Collection: Art
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.Collection: Men
You are transformed by beholding, not by working.Collection: Transformed
Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.Collection: Your Smile