The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Composing music changes nations, listening to music changes you.

I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.

Deny your emotions and act like you have answers

We are all human, and all do wrong.

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.