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When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. 
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. 
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. 
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. 
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left. 
Animals are not humans with reduced capacities. They have their own capacities, their own spectrum of aptitudes and behaviors. 
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins 
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence 
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from 
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it 
A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. 
There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. You have to try to find all of those secret names 
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. 
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. 
The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever 
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. 
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. 
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. 
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. 
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). 
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. 
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. 
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools 
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. 
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. 
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. 
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. 
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do. 
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain 
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed 
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose 
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. 
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper 
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. 
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation. 
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. 
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. 
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. 
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. 
Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who reason with the head. 
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. 
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. 
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. 
