Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.