No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

To spread a nice and good message to restore confidence among the fans around the world, because the fans are the most important thing.

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.