All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.

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.

Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.