As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

the gods play nofavorites.

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.