Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Fall seven times stand up eight.

Land really is the best art.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.