For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

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.

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

―You realize I can hear you without the annoying intercom. Cookie and I both leaned forward and looked at each other through the doorway. ―But this is more fun, I said. ―More Star Trekkie.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Everything you need God already is.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.