the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

Duty should be a byproduct.