To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

The problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error.

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.

A map is not a journey.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.