The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Children should be taught how to think and not what to think by equipping them with the weapons of discernment and knowledge.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.