Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

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.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

If you give your best and fail, you have no reason to be disappointed. If you don't give your best and fail, you have no right to be.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.