If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

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.

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.