Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed