Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?""I think it was Alan Blunt.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.