Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Millions of professing Christians are only just that—“professing.” They have never possessed Christ. They live lives characterized by the flesh.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

I'm the only one of the republican candidates who's actually turned an economy around and turned it around with the with kind of pro-growth principles that we're talking about for America.