The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.