Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

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.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was

If you Want to Be 1st Just Find The Reason For The Last And Try To Avoid That Way...

The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that's the hardest.