Use those brains that God put in your head.
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends. . . then self mastery can be sought.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.