The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

May you always walk in Beauty.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

What is left when honor is lost?

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.