Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

I love you, ’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

God is the Father of light.

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than her.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.