It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

Empty mind is the devil's workshop...and busy mind kills creativity...

I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.