I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

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.

Expectation creates the reality.

You want her in every quadrant like a desperate fool.

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.