When you know better you do better.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

We need much less than we think we need.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—’Come out unto us.’ But keep thy state; come not into their confusion.

In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. 

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Truth is our element.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. 

“I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

“In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.”

“Why should poetry have to make sense?

“Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.”