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.

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.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

That’s why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can’t be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn’t smart enough to tell you about the wine.

In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.

As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car.

I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states' rights rhetoric.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.

Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.