Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Each soul is potentially divine.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Freedom lies in being bold.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.