Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

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.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.

It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you.

You know that I know that I know that you know that I know my path.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.

As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.