What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - read more

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.

It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal read more

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared read more

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need read more

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.