Meditation Quotes

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Sustaining true friendship

is a lot more challenging

than we give it credit for.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

All my life through

the new sights of Nature

made me rejoice

like a child.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

What is politics?

Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

If we forget what we did,

we won’t know who we are.

You alone are enough.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,

through which God speaks to us every hour,

if we will only tune in.

The difference between successful people

and really successful people

is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Facts are stubborn things.

It’s a great privilege to be an actor.

It’s a great privilege to be alive.

We Americans...

bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

The soul is healed by being with children

Being a libertarian means respecting the choices of others.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize

the extent of your own ignorance.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

If you want to achieve

greatness stop asking

for permission.