People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

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.

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

"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.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.