In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

I think of myself as still being about five.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.