When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

Life is all about impact, become an influential millionaire by touching million lives.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'

I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.