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.

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

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

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