No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Strange how this war was making them all Americans.

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Don't hate on my fans. Hate on me.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.