I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business..

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself..

If you want something, go get it. Period..

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society..

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature..

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully..

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life..

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible..

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday..

I practice in my head..

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is..

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster..

We cannot put off living until we are ready..

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not s….

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else..

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time..

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely….

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even ….

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of….

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it,….

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most peo….