Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.