Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

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.

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

Are you okay?" "Fan-fricking-tastic. Only way today could get better is if I were scheduled for an appendectomy. Without drugs. In a third-world country.

Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!

If you want a new life, first give praise for having the old one!

My heart is eternally yours, but my soul will always be hell bound.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.