“117. Let me repeat this saying of mine that I once expressed on some other occasions: Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.”

“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

“119. Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

“Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Ego says, "Once everything becomes perfect, I’ll find peace." Spirit says, "Accept yourself as you are, then you will find peace."”

Ralph Smart

“Once upon a time, I was a ‘socially disadvantaged’ child. An enchantedly happy child. Mine was a childhood of intense family closeness. And extreme public alienation.”

Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist

“Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, “Lay it not too much to heart.” Let them adopt the maxim, “Better luck next time”; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States