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

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.

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.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.

A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.