Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

People-based service is God-based service

It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Always prefer to be like Gold, so ductile as willing to be pulled to the limits, so malleable as the more you get beaten the more you get decorative.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

I'm in relationship right now and one thing that I've loved about it is sharing the memories.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.