“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.”

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.