Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'