It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.

Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich else you will live rich but die poor.

Learn to grow with what each season brings.

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.

Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted negative stimulus.

It's very simple. Liars initiate, haters carry forward, fools spread, idiots believe and mindful void.

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

The mind which is reluctant to change or alter is "ME and I". The mind which is ready to get empty and altered is "BUDDHA".

Don't ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.

Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience.

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'