We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.