All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

Without ethics, science would be cruelty.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.