The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.