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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

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.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Time stays, we go.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

And yet it moves.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.