I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Talk to yourself. Tell yourself you are beautiful. Tell yourself you are strong. See all the beauty that you have inside and speak it aloud. Let your mind see yourself in a positive light.

There is a Pirate in each of us"!

There are great lessons to be learn’t in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.

You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.

As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

We have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.