It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

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.

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

Lovers are always together in heart, mind and soul.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.