“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

We like to be deceived.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Imagination decides everything.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Faith is a gift of God.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.