Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

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.

Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind.

Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame.

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

...You are my compass star." And he was hers.

You're such a book girl.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.