A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

The Past is what it was and did what its done....

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

Don't have a cow, man.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.