The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.
You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.