To an ORDINARY HUMAN being, love MEANS nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than OTHERS.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional WORLD as SOMETHING ALMOST monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary MAN. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

My mother is a BIG BELIEVER in being responsible for your own happiness. She ALWAYS talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we STOP and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I HEAR my mother's voice and smile.

Dread, which is CLOSELY related to FEAR, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes PEOPLE ANXIOUS about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I'm a QUIET PERSON, and I live a quiet, PLEASANT, ORDINARY, simple LIFE.

If Warren Buffett made his MONEY from ordinary income rather than CAPITAL gains, his tax rate WOULD be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small PERCENTAGE of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

The intellectual is DIFFERENT from the ORDINARY MAN, but only in CERTAIN sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.