Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.

When in doubt, look to Jesus.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

[Melania Trump] would go home at night and didn't even want to go out with people. She was a very private person.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.