Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

All writers are propagandists.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Some people see what they want to see.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke