Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

All our anxieties relate to time.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.