Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.