The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, " the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.