Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.