They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.