A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Is safety the ‘dream’ that will kill all of my other ‘dreams?’ For the truth is, no ‘real’ dream is safe.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.