To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.