My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Everybody supplies their own ammunition for their own execution

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.