I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

And what's a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpillar drest.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.