In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

A human teenager. One of God’s most misbegotten creatures – big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.