When one is polite in German, one lies.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness

What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus