A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

You can make your dreams come true only when you work hard and be willing to put your effort behind your dreams.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!