Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done.

To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.