It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.