Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

One should never give up on hope. Unless that's the name of the girl who cheated on you in which case, yeah, give her up.

That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.