Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right 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.

Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain’t the best till it’s been through some goo.

I do benefits for all religions. ... I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.