The great hope of society is in individual character.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.