Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Always be the solution—not the problem.

Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!

God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations.

Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.