Rule Quotes

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you’re acting; listen only to yourself.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.