Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world

4. If you don’t know the Word of God concerning your problem, then worship Him.

The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset.

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.