We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

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.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.