People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.