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

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.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

I am still young to keep learning.

You are not a note in a symphony

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.