If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Hold your venomDo you recognise the instinctin me, fellow scorpion?

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.