Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.

Few things are as exhilarating and challenging for a man as winning a woman’s heart.Few things are as efficient in preserving your marriage as doing it every day, for the rest of your life.

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

I never pay any attention to figures.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.