Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.