The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

It's highly important to always bear in mind that continuous negative thoughts and belief can unquestionably reverse your true destiny in life.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.