Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.