You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.