Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.