Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

I sleep in the pajamas almost every single night, if not, the nightgowns.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.