Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.