In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart -- far more damaging to yourself than to them."

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.