He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.

The moment is a gracious gift.

When you are open to living and trust the process of life and ready to face all your fears, and not afraid to go astray with life, life definitely comes and talk to you, in its own language.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.