Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

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.

Love is, not putting you through hell. That is no basis for a loving relationship

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."