Think about peace

Good things come to those who love

The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.