Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.