If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.