If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

False hope really makes you cynical.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen.