When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.