The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

People create social conditions and people can change them.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Commitment is the match that lights the fire.