To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.