I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

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.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, all countries will respect America far more when I'm leading it, far more than they do under past administrations.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.