Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.