It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

Liberty is the breath of progress.