Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

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.

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.

All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.