The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

Relax. Nothing is under control.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Your vision helps the world identify you at the appropriate time.

…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.