How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!Collection: Wisdom
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.Collection: Life
All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything.Collection: Ocean
My ambition cannot be stopped!Collection: Ambition
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.Collection: Motivational
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.Collection: Thinking
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.Collection: Men
Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.Collection: Drinking
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.Collection: Change
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.Collection: People
There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.Collection: Hypnosis
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.Collection: Spiritual
The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.Collection: World
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.Collection: Sowing
Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.Collection: World
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.Collection: Games
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.Collection: Spiritual
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.Collection: Realizing
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.Collection: Sympathy
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.Collection: Funny
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.Collection: Inspirational
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.Collection: Tasks
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.Collection: Love
Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.Collection: Upset
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.Collection: Life
We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.Collection: Nuclear
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.Collection: Technology
The search is more important than the destination.Collection: Destination
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.Collection: Strong
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.Collection: Soul
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.Collection: Warrior
Have no friends not equal to yourself.Collection: Friendship
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.Collection: Inspirational
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.Collection: Motivational
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.Collection: War
When all else fails, read the instructions.Collection: Failing
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.Collection: Adversity
To respond is positive, to react is negative.Collection: Inspirational
Heart is what separates the good from the great.Collection: Basketball
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.Collection: Understanding
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.Collection: Nature
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.Collection: Spend Time
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.Collection: Disney Animation
A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.Collection: Beautiful
I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.Collection: Spiritual
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.Collection: Failure