Directing takes a lot of time.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.