The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

There are as many types of non-dualities as there are dualities.

Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.