without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

The wind plays its own music.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Our supreme purpose here is to discard our false identity and realize the Atman within.

History is nothing new.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Fear too often spells failure.