That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

We cannot see what we don't believe.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.