Everything above and below is one unity.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the way of Tao is kindness

An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral compass, we lose our country.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.