When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I'm an affectionate person.