If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.