Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.