Gratitude opens the door, the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.