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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

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We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

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Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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