General quotes
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side.
It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful — for all of it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.
Aaron Peirsol was the man. Ryan Lochte is also insane. Like, if Phelps wasn't around, we'd all be talking about Ryan Lochte as the dude who changed everything, because he's insane as well.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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