“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

“153. When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy — then you will find true prayer.”

“That's when you can build a bridge of light.
That's what turns the wrong so right.
That's when you can't give up the fight.That's when love turns nighttime into day.
That's when loneliness goes away.
That's when you gotta be strong tonight.
Only love can build us a bridge of light.”

“You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

“It's like the old dilemma: You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.”

“Success in any area of your life is not found in producing what you think you must produce on your journey, it’s found in the love, the joy, the happiness, and the sense of True Self that you experience—and that others experience in their life because of you—along the way. That alone can produce the rest of what you think you are “supposed to” produce.”

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right—at least if you have any experience—because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in. …The inexperienced, the crackpots, and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.”

“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”

“The number one fact about the news media is they love fights. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.”

“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”