When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

The Key to Happiness is to be FREE to BE what you want to BE!

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.