“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness.”

You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

The world is like a waiting room in a railway station; it is not your house.

If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back.

Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity.

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

I really don’t like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.