When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

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.

Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.

The devil will tremble when you pray.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Enemies are an indication of character.

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.