Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.

A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.