You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.