Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

There is power in forgiveness.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Children have helped me a lot.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.

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.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

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

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.