I'm kind of an idea guy.

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.

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Kindness is our religion.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.