Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

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.

The fear of failure is a liability.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.