Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

For those living in a dark cave... sometimes all it takes is for someone to throw us a lifeline.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.