After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.