If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.