There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I would have had fun doing just about anything.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.