Posts from ‘May, 2008’

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.~Francis Beaumont
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.~Thomas Mann
Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath [...]

They can’t all happen at once, so, it’s a matter of what goes first, what will create the most momentum for the most investment. And we think one of these two can do that.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
We just ask people for money.
We inherit nothing [...]

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
When angry, [...]

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Our scientific power has outrun [...]