"There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it."
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
"Full nakedness!<BR>All joyes are due to thee,<BR>As souls unbodied,<BR>Bodies uncloth'd must be<BR>To taste whole joyes."
"Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"It is more difficult to dissimulate the sentiments we have, than to simulate those we have not."
"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
"The difference between love and possession is, that one is an infinite desire, the other a satisfied desire."
"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight."
"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."
"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
"Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety."
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."
"They say in India that a man who is liberated in this world has to cultivate a few mild bad habits in order to stay in the body, because if he were absolutely perfect he would disappear from manifestation. So the yogi, the great yogi, occasionally smokes a cigarette or has a bad temper occasionally, something that keeps him human, and that little thing is very important."
"Life is a promise; fulfill it."
"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."
"To be no part of any body, is to be nothing."
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen."
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"The light of faith makes us see what we believe."
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
"The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns."
"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me."
"The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps; does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born."
"It is rare that, after having given the key of her heart, a woman does not change the lock the day after."
"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in."
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
"You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does."
"If you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget!"
"Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights."
"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others."
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."