The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Practice peace, change your world.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

You find freedom inside - nowhere else. In the heart of every being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

ME: You 're a sick girl. ERIN: Guilty as charged. :)