To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

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.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.