Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

As you believe, so it is for you.

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.