Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Time the devourer of everything.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning, it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.

I don't like allegory.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.