The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

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.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worthin the endin the end

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

The future of American film lies on television.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.