Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds.

Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.