What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

You can discover a person's true character by examining how their actions align with their words.

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.