The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Ugliness creates bitterness. Ugliness is an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try to change that.
But I wish the public could, in the midst of its pleasures, see how blatantly it is being spoon-fed, and ask for slightly better dreams.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
What’s meant to be, will always find a way.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. Â The challenge is to silence the mind.
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn’t make a difference you will make it make a difference.
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
