Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

In the big scheme of things, it’s the little things that matter

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much.

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

Discipline brings forth maturity.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.

Why didn't I just throw my money out of the window - and light it on fire?

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.