The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

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

A friend is as it were a second self.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

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.

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.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

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

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

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.