Religion is just coded spirituality.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

If you learn to use the power of love then you're the most powerful person.

A believe in yourself is powerful enough to turn you into a world leader while self-doubt and self-pity are powerful enough to turn you into a street loiterer

I felt dead and sick inside.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.