What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

It helps me sleep at night.

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.