I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.