Faith is the spiritual house in which we live.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.