If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air.These people do not live at my house.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

Faith is taking God at His Word.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.