I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Respect all men but fear none.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

The only constant in life is change

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it.

The lie is different at every level.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.