Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

My father was very outwardly religious.

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.

At the beginning, all roads seem endless; but they are not!

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.