So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

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 love you. I’ve loved you since I was sixteen years old, and I’ll love you until the day I die. And I just… needed you to know that.

The respect of a man of great honor is unshakeable. He stands a big chance of being remembered and honored by many generations to come.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.