Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.