War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

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.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.