The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt.

[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.

Those that are afraid to buy are always afraid to sell.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life