There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.