Seek peacefully, you will find.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

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

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.