When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.

The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.