With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

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.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

nothing but a soul can feel what the heart says nothing but a soul can understand what the mind says.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.