Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

Sri Chinmoy brings Heaven to me. He inspires everyone to be happy. He deserves the biggest gold medal.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.