A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

I've been a voice for many people.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.