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

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

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.

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

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.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in.

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

I never use that word, retire.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.