It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the ‘Self’.

The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.

It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.