To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

Race doesn't make a man

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they?

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.