You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.