If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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.

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

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.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Don't search Dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on earth.

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I'm on a 24 hour champagne diet. Spillin while I'm sippin I encourage you to try it.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.