I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the read more

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Honesty is a word
that is hardly ever spoken
Deceit is a word
that makes hearts broken
Love is a read more

Honesty is a word
that is hardly ever spoken
Deceit is a word
that makes hearts broken
Love is a word
spoken many, many times
Hate is a word
that brings out prejudiced crimes
Trying is a word
actions taken that are confusing
Giving-up is a word
not or winning but of losing
Beginning is a word
that means a new start
Forever is a word
that doesn't play its part
Breeze is a word
talking about the wind
Fresh is a word
telling how to begin.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a read more

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve read more

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions
between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and
matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long
forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is
nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of
every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.