Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Laughter is the best medicine

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.