Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

It felt dangerous. It felt amazing. It felt like of course the lights were out, because all the electricity in the city was in my veins.

no life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

There is no excuse for not trying.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.