When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.