Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

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.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.