The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendship if you learned instead to stay put when storm hit?

I believe in my sacred self.

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.