It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.