Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Love is the energy from which all people and things are made. You are connected to everything in your world through love.

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.