Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

Sunlight is painting.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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