Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

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.

You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.