Archives - September 2019

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

At every party there are two kinds of people --- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.

Retire from work, but not from life.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.