[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

I get happy very easily and very often.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.