The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

To see more is to become more.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.