To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

I reserve my right to be complex.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.