We love things that are convenient.

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.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.

Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.