In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Men must know their limitations.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Smiles are the language of love.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.