Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

As a model, I'm used to having my body scrutinized, and I have a tough skin so I can shake it off. I know I'm the only person that gets to decide how my body should look.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"