Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Unselfish acts are the real miracles out of which all the reported miracles grow.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

This sentance has three erors.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; those who are on the inside wish to get out.

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...

Our beliefs can move us forward in life — or they can hold us back.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Work is the best antidote for savaged work. If we are engaged in making something new, we are less invested in the reception of something old. If we remember to keep our own counsel — "How did I like the work?" — then we are less likely to be blown apart by the judgment of others. Having a healthy forum of before, during and after friends is also an enormous help. We need those who love us and our work for the long haul and not for a hot-off-the-presses pick or pan.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

The best thing to give your enemy is foregiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.