The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

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.

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.