The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.

God wants us to do everything according to His plan

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

The slow rhythm of waiting.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Love reasons without reason.