On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.