I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

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.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it’s free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.

If life is a game... I need new dice!

To argue with reality is to argue with God

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.