"My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me."

“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”

“The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.”

“I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.”

“This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one's responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.”

Source : "Thinking and Destiny" by Harold Percival, Ch. 2, (p. 28), 1946.

“Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.”

“Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.”

“I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.”

“Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.”