Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

I am never less alone than when alone.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.