As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Hope makes the soul glad.

Keep moving

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.