inspiration

"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."

"To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person."

"Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for"

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach."

"The Sewing Machine CharmTo A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together"

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."

"We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all."

"Know thyself."

"So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about."

"Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair."

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."

"Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will"

"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come."

"The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect."