The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!

There’s always a bear,

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.

Control of senses is an important human value.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.