We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

I had totally lost my way. I lost focus. I lost myself.

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area