While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Love is a power which produces love.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.

Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness".

Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes