Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

You can never lose anything. You only gain the moment of beauty like a bud transforms into a flower.

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.