It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
Well, I'm sold. I'll take one America.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
What I want is the belt. It doesn't matter who has it.
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
We want to get another one.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
