Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.