Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

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.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.