The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Beauty was not simply something to behold

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.