Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his modern art, but you don't need anybody's help to understand a flower. You can deal with anything, you can do anything if you do not waste your energy trying to achieve imaginary goals.

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.

I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.