If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Just because we believe the gospel is a life-and-death matter doesn't mean we have to act as if we're dead.