A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Is that you giggling away to glory?Or is that just the flowers mingling with the bees and telling their story?

Did the Ancient Greeks ever write anything funny—like slapstick? I mean, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of well-written physical comedy.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.