Deepak Chopra

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

I thus free myself from the illness of ego-clinging.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.