For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

Life is taking you somewhere, listen to the messages, they will repeat until you follow their call.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.