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.

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.

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.

Movies are like magic tricks.

The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.

What are you doing for others is the ultimate end of true leadership.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.