Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

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.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.