There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void whose world will give us shelter?

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

For there is no defense for a man who in the excess of his wealth has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Don't get involved in partial problems but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem even if this view is still not a clear one.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and must therefore be treated with great caution.

To have great poets there must be great audiences.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.