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

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 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.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

If it feels as though life is screwing with you - it isn't. The world isn't 'against you'.It's simply showing you what you believe and giving you a chance to observe it and change it.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.