Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.

Never sacrifice your greatest dream for a casual wish.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.