It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.