I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.