Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.

without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

The wind plays its own music.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Our supreme purpose here is to discard our false identity and realize the Atman within.

As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. I Peter 4:2

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!