Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering — to personality and the ability to lead people.

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.

Generally speaking we are in God's will whenever we are leading the kind of life he wants for us. And that leaves a lot of room for initiative on our part, which is essential: our individual initiatives are central to his will for us.

If we are not prepared to use our power of choice to turn our minds to God, then we do not have contact with God.