"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

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.

Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.

I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.