The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.