Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn’t the father of my children, to support me financially.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it’s the perception of life directly.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people‘s entry into the main current of world-events.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don’t rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.