When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.