Our word salary comes literally from the vulgar Latin salarium, salt money—the Roman soldier’s ironic term for what it would buy.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.