I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Self-determination and self-dedication will make the dream a reality.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.