Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.