I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.

Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.