Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.