There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

A writer’s breakthrough is a breakdown with a smile.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested.

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Libraries help you to dream!

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

Every country has it trade offs.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.