Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

They are who we thought they were!

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

There are no indisputable truths.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.