“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.