Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.