The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.