To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

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.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK?I'm falling to pieces

If you have time don't wait for time.

If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.