As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

I can do a gig without an instrument

The paper standard is self-destructive.

Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!