Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Everybody has a purpose.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I kinda live where I find myself.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.