Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts.

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

The light's hot, everything’s hot, I’m hot.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.