The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness.

Man is what he believes.

For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

It's great to be with people you like!