There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

The present necessarily betrays the past.

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

I came, saw, and overcame.