You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.
I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!
Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
