Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Trev, all you had to do was breathe to make me want you.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.