Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

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.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

I need someone like me.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.