Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Stalin's methods did not help.

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.