If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

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.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

Never forget that time is the most valuable thing we can spend, so don't throw it away!

The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.