There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

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.

No Tyson, the guy in the story did not attract the attention of a moose. Tyson is sad now.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.