For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

You cannot step into the same river twice.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

History is written by the victors.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

It’s a funny old world.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.