Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

I didn't feel poor, I just felt that I didn't have any money