Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.