“A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.”

We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

Mind is the foundation of man.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day

As man acts, God reacts.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Everything above and below is one unity.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Come what may, I have been blest.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.