The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.