You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.