A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.