When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.

The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive.

Every problem has an effect – every deserved curse has a consequence or result, an outcome or effect.

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.