... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it.

Failure too is a form of death.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

I do not choose to be a common man.

If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.