When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

Something lurked inside the truth.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.