It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.