It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Make hay while the sun shines.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Authority forgets a dying king.

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.