Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona...

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures