The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.