I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no mo

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

A man should construct meaningful ideas at his own will if he wants to take citizenship responsibilty by helping others pursue their happiness.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.