There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.