Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

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

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Love that is within you is also flowing through the hearts of your neighbors and friends.

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

I don't pitch for contracts.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.