Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

So I'm wearing that today. And I wore it yesterday, too. Maybe I'll wear it tomorrow. I just collect stuff, I guess.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.