Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense.