Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill, ” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel, ” which would imply respect.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

Every time I see a guy walk out of an over-the-top sports car, I think they need a cold shower.

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.