Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.