It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.

Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.