Look and you will find it—what is unsought will go undetected.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.