Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. -Kurt Vonnegut.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead, And saw a something hard to name Fly mothlike over baby's bed.

Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear! Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. -Garrison Keillor.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found the Evangelical faith in which I had been reared confirmed and deepened. Increasingly I rejoiced in the Gospel -- the amazing Good News -- that the Creator of what to us human beings is this bewildering and unimaginably vast universe, so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Everlasting life, I came to see, is not just continued existence, but a growing knowledge -- not merely intellectual but wondering through trust, love, and fellowship -- of Him who alone is truly God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. (Continued tomorrow).

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better..sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Leave loved ones always with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.