I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

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.

He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.