The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

Man must conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon

Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

I listen to my spirit guide.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.