A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

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.

I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

I feel very, very blessed.

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.