The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

I was once asked, 'How do you manage to always be in a positive spirit?' I replied, 'It is because I cannot afford to live with the emotional pain that comes with dwelling on negativity.

I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.