What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Maintaining a state of inner calm protects me from becoming a slave to my emotions. It also helps me to keep a cool head when I see others becoming heated or angry. Coolness is not to be distant or uncaring; rather it requires that I develop the deeply caring nature of a peacemaker and serve others in the best possible way.

Broadly speaking, our experiences fall into two categories. One type of experience is more connected with our bodies, and occurs mainly through our sense organs, while the other type is more related to what can be called "the mental consciousness" or "the mind".

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Experience: The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Head covering has become a style, a fashion. It has no more meaning than that for most.

Life experiences are like sentences - we are always looking for the full stop, the conclusion. It's OK to end a train of thought, but not thought itself. Thoughts are the beginning of our creation and are here to be creative. Thoughts are like the magic carpet on which the soul rides across eternity - in reality, there are no endings, no conclusions. Rest for the spirit (which is what we are) is when we allow only the current of the purest thoughts to flow through our mind - thoughts which carry good wishes and blessings for ourselves and others. This is not so much going with the flow, as being in the flow, and being refreshed by the flow. It is how we refresh ourselves. For when we have powerful, positive thoughts for and about others, who experiences them first?

The end excuses any evil.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Practice makes you perfect so be careful what you practice!

Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Dwelling on the past will never allow me to experience peace in the present moment.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

I do not like to be unkind.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The best time to awaken both body and spirit is in the early morning. We are fresh, in solitude, and the vibrations of the world are at their calmest. It is not surprising that you will find all experienced meditators and yogis up with the dawn, inviting the sun of spirit to shine into the heart of their soul. The first half hour of conscious awareness will be the foundation of your day. Make an early start. Meditate, set the switch of your consciousness and calibrate your energy for the day. You'll be surprised the difference it makes.

It is one thing only: man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. The spiritual path is based on the true human values: truth, right conduct, peace, love and non-violence. When man plots a course through life based on these values, which provide a solid foundation, then all the negative emotions fall away. Even if he should stumble on the path, he can easily see the reason for the fall and quickly steady himself and continue the spiritual journey.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. And when the cleansing is finally complete, the evolved soul ceases to react to anything. All emotions are perfectly balanced. He lives in a state of permanent happiness, regardless of prevailing circumstances.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.