Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

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.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.