The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Are we going to lead the world with strength and in accordance with our values? That's what I intend to do.

I think we have to realize that God sometimes gives us more time to pray, and when he does this, we can pray that he will bless those who have opportunities to speak to others.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.