When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.

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.

What you focus upon, is what exists in your reality.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.