Archives - May 2002

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

A good book has no ending.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Now I know how hard life is, and the better I am in life, the better life is.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue --- you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night --- there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.