The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.