When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

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.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.

If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Every company knows what they do Some know how they do it Very few know why

I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.