You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.

Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.