The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

Love is effortless attention.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.

Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.