No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.