Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I'm too old to know everything

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

In season, all is good.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.