In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

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.

Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.

Positive thinkers use sentences like “I can do it”

Men are as faithful as their options.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.