"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.

The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.

Beauty is truth truth beauty.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.