Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.