All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.

Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.