Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Revere the Righteous One.

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

Dreams do come true. They definitely do come true. It just takes a while, I guess. Sometimes it doesn't, but for me it did, anyway.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.