Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard.

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.