Let what comes come, let what goes go.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.