The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God’s children; then you will be in love with all.