Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Whatever you've accomplished, there's always more to experience.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.