The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I was adored once too.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

My wife and I love each other very much.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?