Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

What valuable company is nobody building?