This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

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.

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard.

To change with change is the changeless state

If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company