If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

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.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

I am a part and parcel of God.