“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.”

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.