Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

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Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.