There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.