If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

An eye for an eye.”“That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.”“The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.