It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Live with boldness! Get drunk with all of the beauty of life.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

I've got to keep working hard and doing what I'm doing.

I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.