Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.

You have to be passionately curious in life.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.