Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.