When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

Where you see and feel wrongdoing, Divine Mind sees opportunity to restore Wholeness.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.