Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Thunder is good thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Like the old soldier of the ballad I now close my military career and just fade away an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions but an immediate insight self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

God's first creature which was light.

Worry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.

And God said 'Let there be light' and there was light but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

As we become purer channels for God's light we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is but toward creating the world that could be.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing but you could see it a whole lot better.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

There was my name up in lights. I said 'God somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said 'Remember you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening and cooking which I rarely do in London.

Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth and without light nothing flowers.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

In the light of our culture these are not unreasonable questions and tactics but if once again we try to see the lens through which we look we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.