Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves

We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego

Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect our actions and consequently the future turn of events

It is the Master who comes to the door of his student when the student is ready and the Master knows all the truth of his student

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.