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.

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.

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

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Bibliotherapy is an inexpensive treatment not bound by time or place.

For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn’t lie.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.