The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.