There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.

Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

No one rules if no one obeys

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.