Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you...

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.