There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Do. Then talk. In that order.

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Because I'm a pale person, I take care of my skin religiously.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.