What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral.

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

start with one true thing

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.