I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

One must love a poet on its own terms.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.