All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

The man that wars with others is lost. The man that wars with himself is found.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.