But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.