When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. Thats why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.