Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

My country has no history, only a past.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.