The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The moment you're born you're done for.