America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.