...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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.

No one can save me except myself.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.