All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.