Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.