I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.

You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.