Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.