If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.

Do you believe in reincarnation?...I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

You can't spell Citrus without UT

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.