In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

I think I know what military fame is

Waiting and waiting and waiting... for somebody to reply... but nobody is going to reply.

At the end, everyone just wants to be themselves.

People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it