We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live.

Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... Nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.