Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

I'd be the last one to use the nuclear weapons, because that's sort of like the end of the ballgame.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.