True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

Give love and forget that you gave it.

Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.