What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

No camouflage.

Follow your heart, not the crowd ...

Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

You change your life by changing your heart.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Do not talk too much. First do some Sadhana. First do, then be, then you can talk.

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.