Hidden nature is secret God.

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.

Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share.

Though sin abound, God's grace is greater to save.

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.