If prayer, understood as an intimate relationship with God, is indeed the basis of all relationships—to ourselves as well as to others.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.