The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

I'm definitely not postmillennial. And I do not believe in bringing in the Kingdom by human means, in no sense of the matter.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.