Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Balance is not something you find, it's something you create

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.