A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.
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.
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
I, for one, begin with intent. . . . There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.