What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

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.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

I got this bad allergy - I'm allergic to bullshit.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.