Barbara Quotes

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I prefer to remain anomalous.

The earth is bread we take and eat.

Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

Crises precede transformation.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.