I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?""No, but she will because she has to.

Don't ever forget that life has nothing to do with what you are doing, but has everything to do with what you are being.

Peace is the foundation of yoga. Karma yoga is the effort for bringing peace and happiness in the world.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

It's nice to just do my hobby and be able to live.

Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.