For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.