If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.