Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

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.

Kindness is the greatest medicine that can heal all ills.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.