Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

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.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

We each survive in our own way.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.