Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life...

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.

Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.