I like to know where the camera is.

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.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

Always be looking for what you can appreciate in the moment.

Your words are determined by what dwells in you

When it is summer, enjoy it, but you must also prepare for winter.

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.