To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

It's not that hard to be glamorous in England.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.