"in the beginning, when you are creating the problem, is the solution -- don't create it"
"suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering"
"when you don't need the other, you can love, and that love will not bring misery"
"Just watch every kind of misery. Either it has some pleasure in it which you are not ready to lose or it has some hope which goes on dangling in front of you..."
"Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it"
"don't sympathize too much with people who are miserable. if somebody is miserable, help but don't sympathize. Don't give him the idea that misery is something worthwhile"
"Unhappiness has a certain relationship to pursuit, a partnership. If you "pursue" you will find unhappiness"
"Misery nourishes your ego. That's why you see so many miserable people in this world"
Pretty wise stuff for a guy who was considered a looney tune, dressing everybody up in Orange and collecting limosines! He had his moments
