Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

I’ve reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.