The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.