There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

I love you, ” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.

We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.