The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

Feeding a lion will never make him your friend.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.