For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into read more

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His read more

If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are read more

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still read more

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly read more

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.