How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

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.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

You will never be admired without being criticized first.

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

President Trump's made it clear that his administration is going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

Surround yourself with people that are going to support you on your journey, and get rid of the ones that don't.

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.