I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

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.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

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.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

The moon shows the truth of things.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art