The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

The more you know, the less you carry

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.