When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

When you sign yourself up for what you're doing, you have to take care of yourself.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

War is an admission of failure

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

The longer I live, the more I find I don't know

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.