The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections. . . What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
Ideation without execution is delusion
The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!
The secret of passion is purpose.
Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
Philosophy is the health of the mind.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.