Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Aristotle

A Prayer For My SonBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory

General Douglas MacArthur

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Arnold Bennett

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Tyra Banks

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

Todd McFarlane

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Marshall McLuhan

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Hedy Lamarr

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category.

Steve Wozniak