Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

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

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.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.