Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

My pictures are airbrushed.

I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.