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.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

Be happy for things that work.

Garnish your food with romance.

There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.