Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.