Every artist was first an amateur.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
Anger causes alot of damage. When someone gets angry, that anger also creates anger in others. It takes two hands to clap. Therefore, if someone gets angry shower him with flowers.
Worry does not remove the sorrow of tomorrow; it removes the strength of today.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
The soul is healed by being with children.
To be a leader means to be able to move masses.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
