When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

Whenever i have Wealthy wealth trust me i will change the history of poverty

If you delight yourself in lord, He shall give you desires of your heart.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.