He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

It's not the end. It's the beginning.

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.