The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

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.

I challenge you to start focusing on the things that are good about your day instead of what is bad about it. Happiness is nothing but a state of mind.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.