A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

Give love and forget that you gave it.

Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.