There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
Her stillness defeated his storm.
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
«Más dinero, más problemas».
Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met.
Sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I...
Don’t listen to them, I said. In fact, don’t ever let anybody tell you that you can’t do something. Not your parents, your teachers. Nobody.
Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero… como yo en aquel tiempo.
Until you are at home in yourself, familiar with the knowledge of the gold of who you are, where you come from, where you’ve been, and who you were meant to be, you’ll be basically homeless. In other...
No matter where you are, only you have dominion over your mind, your beliefs, and your attitudes. So if you look at your situation and let go of excuses or blame, and you choose to believe that you ca...
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.
Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream? Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. Well, I said, people who can’t do something themselves, they’re jealo...
But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
If anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God. That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or th...
Only by acknowledging, Hey, here is where I am, and I’m here because I steered my horse here, can I make the next choice to ride on out to the sunset where I’d really like to be. Or,
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking...
The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the me...