Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

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

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.

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.

Love more than you loved your ex-girlfriend, if your present girlfriend feels your feeling then you will feel most happiest moment than your ex-gf.

When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.

it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

When we think we know we cease to learn.

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .