Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

I'm single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.