This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.