When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

You're making an admirable go of it, but in the end, loyalty is about taking aside.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Thank God for wisecracks.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.