“But leisure has little to do with one’s happiness.”

Love, honor, and negotiate.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, “I don’t know. But one thing I do know.

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people.

The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me – I would go so far as to say that it’s my favourite leisure activity.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.