Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take 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.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

History should be studied but not worshipped.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world.