There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Practice peace, change your world.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

But this kiss? It's ruined me. This is the type of kiss I never knew existed. It's like falling and flying, all in the same moment.

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me