For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.