When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

Botox to me is not surgery.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

I'm poor, not homeless.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.