I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone - but we over-respect no one.

Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.

The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and veryfew employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that onyour own time.

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

I close my eyes, think positive thoughts, and breathe goodness in and out

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.