John Davison Rockefeller Jr.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

I do not like to be unkind.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.