We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Communicate at all times with the Creator.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.