Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise read more

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through
our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones read more

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through
our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're
especially responsible for the one's we put there.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his read more

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24].

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.