The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.