Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

A gentle spirit, a kind heart.

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

Among the worlds 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.