It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn’t bring happiness

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.