Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

When you touch me, good God.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.