When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.

No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

I listen to a lot of twerk anthems.