A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Keep in mind that your individual vote doesn't mean anything.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.