He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

Spiritually, I pray and meditate. Emotionally, I challenge myself to be open, honest, and available.

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Dream big and your problems become small.