The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.

It's all success if it's what you need.