When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.