An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

May be able to die those who didn't know how to live

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.