May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Money and religion are perfect alloy.

Don't be afraid to wake up your dream... give it a hard nudge, a toss of cold water... make it leap, make it fly. Dreams won't come to life without action.

We don’t have to tell secrets. We don’t have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.

If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.

The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is … it gives everyone a voice.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.