When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

David, I’ll fly for you, if you’ll love me!”“Fly, then.”“I can’t fly, but love me anyway.”“Poor wingless child!”“Is it so hard to love me?”“Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

Observe, don't imitate.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].