My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

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.

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

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.

He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.

You should never forget. But you should try to forgive.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.