Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

I have learned to delegate.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.