There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

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.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.