What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

I grimace, thinking someone should come up with a new phrase for 'I left the ocean without a kiwi-sized chunk of my lower-left butt cheek' to replace the rather nebulous term 'exploratory bite.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and love, and you pissed off or, your happy.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land With a wig, yeah. And some crisps.

Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.