To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

Little dogs bite more than big dogs but they get away with it.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.