Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

A very smart woman once told me that anger can feel like a life buoy, like it's the only thing keeping you afloat, but that in order to heal you have to let go.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.