Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

The time to lead is now.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.