it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

A prayer is a chat with thy God.

Life's rewards as well as it's short-comings are magnetic reflections of the vivacious energies we release through our thoughts, our actions, and our words.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.