Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

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.

Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache

I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the girl's shoe and the glove compartment—was my usual dignified self.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

I was very keen on playing a victim.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.