Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

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.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves firework and red wine.

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

Talking to God was damned good business.