A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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.

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

According to a new poll, nearly six out of 10 Republicans want Mitt Romney to run for president. So do 10 out of 10 Democrats.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.