One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness to love and to long life.

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.

Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness.In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed.Spring flowers, winter snows.There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

Christ rises above all things.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.