Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

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.

He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

The law itself follows gold.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.