Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.