The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

"An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders."

"God's only excuse is that he does not exist"

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

Its obvious that we don't really know one millionth of one percent about anything.

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

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

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

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.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.