The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Honestly...this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."