Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.

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.

An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.