The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.