My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!