Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!