Debut quotes

What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill this or that social role :police officer, school teacher, physician? This may sometimes lead to difficult social decisions - e.g. should police be permitted to illegally import drugs as part of a sting operation? In the end, I think "common - that is, critical - morality" should determine the limits of the police role.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.