All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.