God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse...throw them away.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.