I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"