You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then

objectivity is subjective

Willpower and determination have their limits. A compelling life purpose, one you believe God created you for, will help you push beyond those limits

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

What's your favorite part of me?

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.