The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.