There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

With the pursuit of faith, I am a free soul.

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.