Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself. . . nothing is impossible!
To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
Time,--the most independent of all things.