“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.”
“You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy …
“To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.”
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”
“Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.”
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on …
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”
“You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
“Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your …
“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won’t matter.”
“Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.”
“In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, …
“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself…”
“Working in the garden…gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.”
“‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”
“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To …
“A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, …
“Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got.”
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.”
“Nothing ever goes away.”
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads/Let love through good deeds show.”
“Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.”
“Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”
“No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”
“I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental …
“If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.”
“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.”
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”
“There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.”