Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the desire for power.

Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.