“The greatest prayer is patience.”

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.

Life is a river always flowing, do not hold onto things, work hard.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Nothing is forever except change.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.