The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.

reading is awsome

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.