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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

I have indeed – praise be to God – attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’