We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.