The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.