The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

I don't think I can adequately express my feelings about the car on national radio, but hopefully we'll get better and I'll be happier later on.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.