To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

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

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

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

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

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.