Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul.

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.

Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences, and when we change the lens we change how we experience.

It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

Image promises much but produces litte. Integrity, however, never disappoints. For me, integrity means living it myself before leading others to live it.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.