The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

Success has always been a product of having an unstoppable drive to make each day count creatively and productively.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.