For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

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.

Destiny has answered it call!

Failure is inevitable, and that the key to success is not dodging every bullet but being able to recover quickly.

Past and to come seems best things present worst.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.