Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.