Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."