Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances but all my family is there. It's what's inside it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family you tiptoe you don't want to step on any mines.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if certain things were true and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

In all our deeds the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Not what we experience but how we perceive what we experience determines our fate.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.