Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I am just one human being.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

The self is hateful.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I have goals.