We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

Always do the right and be the right, Whatever the circumstances.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

I'm a very wealthy man.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

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

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.