Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

Make your ideal your new real.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.