More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

Don't be afraid of tomorrow, for God has already been there.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The careful pilot of my proper woe.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.