Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

Who is the self that you are helping?

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.

In the monastery,  you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Realize the self of yourself.

The deeper in you go the more unique you become

Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul.

it {romantic love} really isn't about two people who have fallen madly for each other

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.