One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

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.

"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.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.

Live a simple life, doing what you love.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself