It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.