Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.

The most terrible of all things is terror.