The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

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.

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I want to do that thing rich people do where they turn money into more money.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?