TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.