In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

I thought of her as she, and she as her.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home.