I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.