I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Forgotten is forgiven.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Religion is just mind control.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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 are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Disagreement is something normal.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.