No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.

Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, ' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.