To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.
Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
The part of you that is real, that is authentic, was never born and never dies. IT IS INFINITE. See yourself as an infinite being.
In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.
Once you begin the journey toward a life of purpose, you enter the realm of real magic.
In a real estate man’s eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they’re not making any more.
There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, ‘Who among us on salary are earning our income?’
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, “Put it in land, and you can always walk on it.” We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
It’s the greatest game I ever saw. You can’t lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What’s worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It’s just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.
And if you call one a real estate agent and he won’t sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It’s the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.