Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK?I'm falling to pieces

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.