When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

The world is a very big place and there are many wonderful people in with ideas you haven't thought about. Talk to them, find out what they're thinking, so that you can be the best person you can be.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.