Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

I can do small things in a great way.

The atheist has no hope.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

To win the peace, fight with your love and understanding.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.