But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Pray to your God, open your heart. Whatever you do, don't be afraid of the dark.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.