The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

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.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.