The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

Each of you are a voice. Together we are a choir, a powerful choir of change that circles the globe with love.

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Every work you do should be done unto the Lord and your love to God must show in the quality of your product

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.