Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.