Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

If you love god, burn a church.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.