“When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.”

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things

Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

You must make bold experiments in life!

It’s a divine art to be cheerful.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.

You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.

He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it’s going to be delivered, but it’s not something I look for all the time.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.