The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.

As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

War is the father and king of all.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.