When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

Jesus loves you... He's not 'in love' with you.

Nothing comes from nothing.

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.