If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.