Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.

The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.

Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.

Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.

What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.