Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Practice peace, change your world.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.