The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Sunlight is painting.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Boards don't hit back.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.