Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

When love is not madness it is not love.

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

i dream nights and girls like tigers, claws and teeth on both.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.