The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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.

Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.