There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

The covetous man is ever in want.

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.