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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.