The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to

My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

One thing we can all control is effort

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.