There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.