Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.

Everything is perfect and nothing is permanent.

Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.

When you are quiet, you see everything with love.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

You have to get serious about your practice!

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Some feel lucky, if they haven't got to be happy, as they don’t like their frame of mind to be unravelled and prefer to be left well enough alone. ( "C’est quand le bonheur ?" )

In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man’s work.

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.