Peace and freedom! These things shall be! How soon these things shall be - whether now or whether after great destruction and new beginnings and eons of time - is up to us!

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.