Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life.

No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.