God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.