You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

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.

Serving God is equivalent to serving men

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Americans love to read about violence.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.