Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

We shall know how to live better, if we read the Holy Bible.

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.