I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

May you discover your sacred-self.

When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

I was an emotional basket case.

What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.

I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.