To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

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.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

I think you can use some of those words on TV. But one thing you can't do is throw coffee, I've said it over and over again!

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.