There is no mistake in nature.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I’m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?
As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.
You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
